Meet the author

Dougie Poynter.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1987

Dougie Poynter: McFly bassist and co-author (with Tom Fletcher) of The Dinosaur That Pooped — gleeful, gross-out rhyming picture books that are a UK 3–7 read-aloud staple.

Dougie Poynter is a British musician and author born in 1987, best known as the bassist of McFly and McBusted, and as co-author with Tom Fletcher of the Dinosaur That Pooped picture-book series, anarchic, rhyming, deliberately gross-out books about a boy and his dinosaur (The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet!, …Christmas, …a Princess and more). Poynter has also written environmental non-fiction for children. His picture-book voice is gleeful, broad and read-aloud-ready, with the bouncy rhyming pacing of an ex-band lyric writer. A reliable hit for 3–7s who want toilet-humour picture books with strong rhythm, especially in the UK market.